Corrupt Harddrive Question

Recently my Mac Book Pro has been very slow when starting up. Today I ran a disk utility check on the hard drive and the report came back that my hard drive was corrupt and to reboot in disk utility mode. When I did that and tried to run the scan nothing showed up as corrupt.
Any clues as to what is wrong with my computer and how to fix it?
Here is the disk utility report where it said the hard drive was corrupt:
2014-12-13 15:22:02 -0600: Disk Utility started.
2014-12-13 15:22:22 -0600: Verifying partition map for “APPLE HDD HTS547550A9E384 Media”
2014-12-13 15:22:22 -0600: Starting verification tool:
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking prerequisites
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking the partition list
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking for an EFI system partition
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking the EFI system partition’s size
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking the EFI system partition’s file system
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking booter partitions
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking booter partition disk0s3
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Verifying file system.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking extents overflow file.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking catalog file.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking multi-linked files.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking extended attributes file.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking volume bitmap.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking volume information.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: The volume Recovery HD appears to be OK.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: File system check exit code is 0.
2014-12-13 15:22:23 -0600: Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
2014-12-13 15:22:26 -0600: Verifying storage system
2014-12-13 15:22:26 -0600: Checking volume
2014-12-13 15:22:26 -0600: disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers
2014-12-13 15:22:26 -0600: disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Logical Volume Group 3CC3592F-33D2-40B1-B57A-D90676F3230F on 1 device
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: disk0s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Segment Headers
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Transaction Segment
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Virtual Address Table
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Segment Usage Table
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Metadata Superblock
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify DBE9B986-087B-4B4E-9B21-1A153108DB40
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify F62F07A3-9771-4D5E-9BBA-996A8D3A4215
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Freespace Summary
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Block Accounting
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Segment Cleaning
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: The volume 3CC3592F-33D2-40B1-B57A-D90676F3230F appears to be OK
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Storage system check exit code is 0.
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: The partition map appears to be OK
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600:
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Starting verification tool:
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Verifying storage system
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Checking volume
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Logical Volume Group 3CC3592F-33D2-40B1-B57A-D90676F3230F on 1 device
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: disk0s2: Scan for Metadata Volume
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Segment Headers
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Checkpoint Payload
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Transaction Segment
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Virtual Address Table
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Segment Usage Table
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Metadata Superblock
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify DBE9B986-087B-4B4E-9B21-1A153108DB40
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify F62F07A3-9771-4D5E-9BBA-996A8D3A4215
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Freespace Summary
2014-12-13 15:22:27 -0600: Load and verify Block Accounting
2014-12-13 15:22:28 -0600: Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses
2014-12-13 15:22:28 -0600: Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid
2014-12-13 15:22:28 -0600: Load and verify Segment Cleaning
2014-12-13 15:22:28 -0600: The volume 3CC3592F-33D2-40B1-B57A-D90676F3230F appears to be OK
2014-12-13 15:22:28 -0600: Storage system check exit code is 0.
2014-12-13 15:22:28 -0600: Verifying file system.
2014-12-13 15:22:28 -0600: Using live mode.
2014-12-13 15:22:28 -0600: Performing live verification.
2014-12-13 15:22:28 -0600: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2014-12-13 15:22:28 -0600: Checking extents overflow file.
2014-12-13 15:23:21 -0600: Incorrect number of file hard links
2014-12-13 15:23:21 -0600: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2014-12-13 15:24:16 -0600: Checking extended attributes file.
2014-12-13 15:24:40 -0600: Checking volume information.
2014-12-13 15:24:40 -0600: The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
2014-12-13 15:24:40 -0600: File system check exit code is 8.
2014-12-13 15:24:40 -0600: Error: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
2014-12-13 15:24:40 -0600:
2014-12-13 15:24:40 -0600: Disk Utility stopped verifying “Macintosh HD”: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.

2014-12-13 15:24:40 -0600: The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
2014-12-13 15:24:40 -0600: Disk Utility stopped verifying “Macintosh HD”: This disk needs to be repaired using the Recovery HD. Restart your computer, holding down the Command key and the R key until you see the Apple logo. When the OS X Utilities window appears, choose Disk Utility.
Repair Disk.
Steps 2 through 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836

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I had some computer problems, reinstalled windows, and now I cannot manually manage my music. I'm giving a full run-down here if anyone can help.......
My harddrive started having problems, so I backed up my music, bought a new drive, and reinstalled windows.
I put my music back on my new hard drive, reinstalled iTunes, directed it to my music library, and waited while it added all my music.
After that, I connected my iPhone 3G to my computer, it did not recognize the library. I expected this, knowing full well that it can only sync music with one library. I said OK to the dialog that said it would have to delete my media files and start over.
Now, all of my music is gone from my iPhone, it is associated with this library, but I cannot manually manage files from within iTunes. I can drag the file to my iPhone, but when I get it over the music icon, a red X appears underneath and nothing happens when I let go of the mouse button.
Has this happened to anyone else ever? Is there a way to fix this? What went wrong anyways?

To each his/her own, but I've never seen much benefit with manually managing music. I've always made use of iTunes playlists, so I choose selected playlists to be transferred to my iPhone. If I want to remove a song from my iPhone that is in a playlist selected to be transferred to my iPhone without removing the song from the playlist, I have sync only checked songs and videos selected for my iPhone sync preferences. I uncheck the song in the playlist in iTunes followed by a sync. Or I can remove songs from a selected playlist followed by a sync to remove the songs from my iPhone, or add additional songs to a selected playlist followed by a sync to add the songs to my iPhone.
Since this did not work, try an iPhone reset, which is done by pressing and holding the home button and the sleep/wake or on/off button simultaneously until you see the Apple logo and then release - ignoring the slide to turn off prompt when doing so.
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Notebook BIOS Corruption Failure Question

I used a modded BIOS in order to use a dual wifi card with the original hard drive. It was working fine for a couple of months, and then I added a SSD with a fresh copy of Windows 7 64-bit. After several reboots installing drivers, I ended up with a flashing caplocks key code 2. Luckily I still had the old hard drive intact, and I used it in conjunction with the B and Windows key to reach the EFI partition and recover the original BIOS. This time around, I installed the modded BIOS with the SSD installed, and everything once again seems to be working fine. My question therefore is: I would like to reformat the old hard drive and use it as a file archive. But what would I do if I lost the modded BIOS again? Is there a way to add the EFI partition to the SSD and will the same procedure using the B and Windows key still work? I see, someone also said you can unplug the CMOS battery for 5-10 minutes and the BIOS will return to the original BIOS. True? I should also mention there is a 100M and 400M partition on the SSD in addition to the main partition. Thanks for your help.

No help here for using Modded BIOS....you need to contact whom you got the modded BIOS from and get help from them.

Mercury elite pro firewire harddrive questions

hi all,
i got my new drive up and had a couple questions. theres a tiny ziplock baggy with a 2" strip of clear plastic with a taped back and 4 tiny oval lumps on it. i dont see any place on the drive it fits? did anyone else get one and if so whats it for? also i searched for a way to confirm the drive is a 320gb seagate 7200rpm with 16buffer. i only found 298gb listed as drive size but no info about speed and manufacturer. is there anyway to confirm my drive specs so i can make sure i got the correct drive? thank you
jeff

Those are the rubber feet for the 4 "C" clips that go on the drive. There are little indentations on those clips and the nubbins go in there to keep it from sliding around.
The reason you are seeing a size of 298GB is due to the difference between how computers see a GB as 1024MB and how HD manufacturers report their capacity as 1000MB.
Computers see a GB as 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes giving a total of 1,073,741,824 bytes. Multiply that by the GBs of the drive and you can see how it adds up.
You got a 320GB drive where 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes as stated by any manufacturer.
Make sense?

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